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Arnavion on Nov 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx

Even if the search form uses POST, the server does read the parameter if it's specified in the querystring. That is, https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=asdf works, so adding it as a search engine with URL .../?q=%s should work as well.

jolmg on Nov 26, 2019 [–]

That's nice I guess. Still a shame the text input can't be used without forgoing the history.

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